Talk:Captain (nautical)

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[edit] Merge suggested

I feel pretty confident that merging this page with Master Mariner makes sense. Any thoughts? Haus42 01:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I think a merge is required. Personally I hate parenthesised titles. I've found my way here from creating a redirect at shipmaster. That would be my choice of title. But in the meantime go for it. Merge Sea Captain into here. That should be easy. Then try master mariner. But go for it. Frelke 07:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

OK. I've done Sea Captain. If you want any help with Master Mariner just shout. Frelke 07:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I completed the merge as per without getting rid of much material at all. It's still a little too section-ey for my tastes, but I think the redundancy is much lower. Cheers. Haus42 22:44, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced claim

I'm going to conditionally remove this: "A captain does, however, have the legal right to administer morphine to a patient, a legal right shared only with doctors and pharmacists." I think this may have been true pre-Inmarsat. For example, corpsmen can administer morphine. Haus42 16:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Well I personally administered pain killers by intramuscular injection many years ago as 2nd Mate. It was prescribed by a shore-based doctor prior to leaving port. So I think "administer" is probably is probably the wrong verb. It may well be that "prescribe" is more correct. I could understand the master having the right to decide that a patient could "use" morphine. But I don't believe that administration of the drug is the issue. Leave it out. If objections are raised it can come back. Frelke 22:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)